Mississippi Nursing Home Administrator ________________ of perishable foods for at least a (24) hour period and or non -perishable foods for a (3) day period shall be on the premises to meet the requirements of the planned menus. The non-perishable foods shall consist of commercial type processed foods. - ✔✔Food Supply Every facility located inside the boundaries of a municipality shall comply with all local municipal ____________________________ applicable thereto. In addition, each facility shall comply with all applicable state and federal laws. - ✔✔Codes and Ordinances No facility may be licensed until it shows conformance to the safety regulations providing minimum standards for prevention and detection of fire as well as for protection of life and property against fire. - ✔✔Fire Safety All fires, explosions, natural disasters as well as avoidable deaths or avoidable, serious, or life -
threatening injuries to residents resulting from fires, explosions, and natural disasters is a ___________________ by telephone to the Life Safety Code Division of the licensing agency by the next working day after the occurrence. - ✔✔Duty to Report The ______________ shall mean a person who is delegated the responsibility for the interpretation, implementation, and proper application of policies and programs established by the governing authority and are delegated responsibility for the establishment of safe and effective administrative management, control, and operation of the services provided. The administrator may be titled manager, superintendent, director, or otherwise - ✔✔The term "administrator __________________ is largest number which can be installed or set up in a facility at any given time for use of residents, as printed on the certificate of licensure. - ✔✔Bed Capacity ________________ is the number of beds that are actually installed or set up for residents in a facility at a given time - ✔✔Bed Count This happens ___________________________ when an entity acquires a majority interest (Fifty percent [50%] or more) of the facility or services, which includes, but is not limited to, intervivos gifts, purchases, transfers, leases, cash and/or stock transactions or other comparable arrangements whenever the person acquires 50% or more. - ✔✔Change of Ownership An ___________ is the use of Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) Form #210, or a copy thereof, which shall be placed in the individual's personal file. - ✔✔Affidavit An _________________, shall mean any individual employed by a covered entity, also includes any individual who by contract with the covered entity provides direct patient care in a patient's, resident's, or client's room or in treatment rooms. - ✔✔Employee A _______________________ means a licensed entity or a healthcare professional staffing agency. - ✔✔Covered Entity A ___________________ is a hospital, nursing home, personal care home, home health agency or hospice. - ✔✔Licensed Entity A ____________________________purpose is to prepare professionals to render patient care services in medicine, nursing, dentistry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, social services, speech therapy, or other allied -health professional. - ✔✔Health Care Professional/Vocational Technical Academic Program This person, _____________, is enrolled in a healthcare professional/vocational technical academic program. - ✔✔Health Care Professional/Vocational Technical Student ___________________________ means direct hands -on medical patient care and services provided by an individual in a patient's, resident's or client's room, treatment room or recovery room. Individuals providing direct patient care may be directly employed by the facility or provides patient care on a contractual basis. - ✔✔Direct Patient Care or Services ____________________ means any action taken against an employee for abuse or neglect of a patient. - ✔✔Documented Disciplinary Action _______________ is a minimum of eight (8) hour period between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m - ✔✔Day Shift ________________ is a person currently licensed to practice dentistry in Mississippi by the State Board of Dental Examiners - ✔✔Dentist ___________ is a person who is licensed as a dietitian in the State of Mississippi, or a Registered Dietitian exempted from licensure by statute - ✔✔Dietitian _______________ is a facility that has obtained licensure prior to the adoption of these regulations - ✔✔Existing Facility A _____________________ are owner(s), Board of Governors, Board of Trustees, or any other comparable body duly organized and constituted for the purpose of owning, acquiring, constructing, equipping, operating and/or maintaining a facility, and exercising control over the internal affairs of said facility - ✔✔Governing Authority ____________________________ includes solid or liquid wastes which may contain pathogens with sufficient virulence and quantity such that exposure to the waste by a susceptible host has been proven to result in an infectious disease. - ✔✔Infectious Medical Waste _____________ Medical Wastes resulting from the care of residents and animals who have 1. Class I and (or) II diseases that are transmitted by blood and body fluid, 2. Cultures and stocks of infectious agents; including specimen cultures collected from medical and pathological laboratories, 3. Blood and blood products such as serum, plasma, and other blood components, and 4. All discarded sharps (e.g., hypodermic needles, syringes, Pasteur pipettes, broken glass, scalpel blades) which have come into contact with infectious agents - ✔✔Infectious __________________________ a place either governmental or private which provides group living arrangements for four (4) or more persons who are unrelated to the operator and who are being provided food, shelter, and personal care whether any such place be organized or operated for profit or not. also, includes nursing homes, pediatric skilled nursing facilities, psychiatric residential treatment facilities, convalescent homes and homes for the aged, provided that these institutions fall within the scope of the definition set forth above - ✔✔Institutions for the Aged or Infirm (Facility/ies). _______________________ is a document issued by the licensing agency and signed by the State Health Officer of the Mississippi State Department of Health. Licensure shall constitute authority to receive residents and perform the services included within the scope of these rules, regulations, and minimum standards. - ✔✔License ____________________ is an employee of the licensed facility (i.e., including, but not limited to, administrator, assistant administrator, director of nursing, director of social services, and others), as designated by the administrator of the licensed facility. - ✔✔Licensed Facility Representative _____________________________ is a person who is currently licensed by the Mississippi Board of Nursing as a Licensed Practical Nurse. - ✔✔Licensed Practical Nurse _______________________ is the person to which the license is issued and upon whom rests the responsibility for the operation of the institution in compliance with these rules, regulations, and minimum standards - ✔✔Licensee _________________ this is a whole blood test used in to assist in diagnosing Mycobacterium Tuberculosis infection. blood test used must be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). - ✔✔IGRA(s) (Interferon -Gamma Release Assay(s). __________________ is the Mississippi State Department of Health. - ✔✔Licensing Agency _____________________ is a method of skin testing that is performed by injecting (0.1) milliliter of purified protein derivative -tuberculin containing (5) tuberculin units into the dermis (i.e., the second layer of skin) of the forearm with a needle and syringe. The area is examined between (48) and (72) hours after the injection. A reaction is measured according to the size of the induration. The classification of a reaction as positive or negative depends on the patient's medical history and various risk factors. - ✔✔Mantoux Test ___________________ is all non - infectious waste generated in direct resident care or in diagnostic or research areas that is non -infectious but aesthetically repugnant if found in the environment - ✔✔Medical Waste ___________________ is a facility that applies for licensure after the adoption of these regulations. - ✔✔New Facility _________________ is a person who is currently licensed by the Mississippi Board of Nursing as a nurse practitioner. The term "physician assistant" shall mean a physician assistant who is currently licensed as such by the Mississippi Board of Medical Licensure - ✔✔Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant
